Philippines president told by God to stop swearing

by cheblogudo

President Duterte is known (among other things) for lobbing his favorite insult, “son of a whore,” at all and sundry international figures, including President Obama and the Pope.    But Duterte’s potty mouth has apparently come to the attention of God almighty, reports The Washington Post:

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has made a solemn promise: no more swearing.

Duterte […] said he was flying back from Japan late Thursday, looking at a vast expanse of sky, listening to his colleagues snore, when he heard a voice say, “If you don’t stop epithets, I will bring this plane down now.”

“And I said, ‘Who is this?’ So, of course, ‘it’s God,’” he told Filipino journalists late Thursday.

“So, I promise God,” he continued, “Not [to] express slang, cuss words and everything. So you guys hear me right always because [a] promise to God is a promise to the Filipino people.”

Since he’s not a millennial woman, Duterte shouldn’t be swearing on the job anyway.